Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: A Mountain Journey
Point of View: 3rd person
Protagonist: Dave Conroy
What type of character is the Protagonist? Round and Dynamic
Antagonist: Nature
Describe the setting Dave Conroy is on a mountain in the wilderness. It takes place in the past. The mood feels intense and scared for your life.
Type of Conflict: man vs. nature
Describe the main conflict: Dave Conroy is struggling against the weather and is freezing to death.
Describe the Climax of the Story: When Dave Conroy makes it down and finds that the cabin he was looking for wasn’t there. And he decides to hike up 10 miles to find another cabin.
How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? At the end just before he dies he realizes all the bad decisions he had made.
Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. The title describes the theme by saying it is a journey. By saying it that way it makes you think that it’s going to be exciting and some crazy things are going to happen.
How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? The main conflict helps illustrate the theme by showing how intense and how people can fight against life and death.
How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? The main conflict helps to illustrate the theme by showing how much nature can affect how you decide on what to do.
Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):
Simile: “The cold was an old man’s fingers feeling craftily through his clothes.”
Metaphor: ”But the light of the sun was dim, as if a brighter light shone from behind the sunlight was its shadow.”
Personification: “The cold was n old man’s fingers feeling craftily through his clothes.”
Symbol: “That tree, like a strong and lonely women, called to his weary body to stop.”
Foreshadowing (give both elements): When Dave Conroy feel asleep and woke up with snow covering half his body.
Irony: When Gone Conroy realized that he should have made camp when he fell through the river.
Imagery: When he saw the open door to a cabin and herd horse bells ringing.
Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. In the short story Dave Conroy makes some decisions that are not smart. And in humanity there is a lot of stupid decisions made. That is how I think humanity is like the story.
Completion 5/5 Effort 3.5/5 Content 3.5/5 total 12/15
Point of View:
3rd person
Protagonist:
Dave Conroy
What type of character is the Protagonist?
Round and Dynamic
Antagonist:
Nature
Describe the setting
Dave Conroy is on a mountain in the wilderness. It takes place in the past. The mood feels intense and scared for your life.
Type of Conflict:
man vs. nature
Describe the main conflict:
Dave Conroy is struggling against the weather and is freezing to death.
Describe the Climax of the Story:
When Dave Conroy makes it down and finds that the cabin he was looking for wasn’t there. And he decides to hike up 10 miles to find another cabin.
How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?
At the end just before he dies he realizes all the bad decisions he had made.
Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.
The title describes the theme by saying it is a journey. By saying it that way it makes you think that it’s going to be exciting and some crazy things are going to happen.
How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?
The main conflict helps illustrate the theme by showing how intense and how people can fight against life and death.
How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?
The main conflict helps to illustrate the theme by showing how much nature can affect how you decide on what to do.
Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):
Simile:
“The cold was an old man’s fingers feeling craftily through his clothes.”
Metaphor:
”But the light of the sun was dim, as if a brighter light shone from behind the sunlight was its shadow.”
Personification:
“The cold was n old man’s fingers feeling craftily through his clothes.”
Symbol:
“That tree, like a strong and lonely women, called to his weary body to stop.”
Foreshadowing (give both elements):
When Dave Conroy feel asleep and woke up with snow covering half his body.
Irony:
When Gone Conroy realized that he should have made camp when he fell through the river.
Imagery:
When he saw the open door to a cabin and herd horse bells ringing.
Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story.
In the short story Dave Conroy makes some decisions that are not smart. And in humanity there is a lot of stupid decisions made. That is how I think humanity is like the story.
Completion 5/5
Effort 3.5/5
Content 3.5/5
total 12/15